While we are on pedia stuff, what is up with "Meter Type/Stat - Primary" and "Meter Type/Stat - Secondary". The entries are simply "The primary stat of an object" and "The secondary stat of an object". Are these used for anything?

alleryn wrote:While we are on pedia stuff, what is up with "Meter Type/Stat - Primary" and "Meter Type/Stat - Secondary". The entries are simply "The primary stat of an object" and "The secondary stat of an object". Are these used for anything?

Their use depends on the part type. AFAIK, most parts only use the primary meter type/stat. E.g. shield parts increase a ships shield meter. IIRC only the hangar parts make use of both, the primary meter type/stat defines the number of fighers the hangar can hold, the secondary meter type/stat defines the fighters strength (that is, the damage a single fighter deals).

Oberlus wrote:
BTW, the techs "Interesteral Entanglement Factory" and "Predictive Stockpiling" are listed in "Technologies" as if they were categories, instead of within their proper category (Production?).

This applies to Generic Supplies and Transcendent Design as well.

Is Transcendent Design correctly listed as a construction tech? It unlocks a building, but that building affects the imperial stockpile ratios, so it feels to me like it ought to be in the same category as the other imperial stockpile techs. After all, Industrial Center isn't a construction tech.

alleryn wrote:While we are on pedia stuff, what is up with "Meter Type/Stat - Primary" and "Meter Type/Stat - Secondary". The entries are simply "The primary stat of an object" and "The secondary stat of an object". Are these used for anything?

Their use depends on the part type. AFAIK, most parts only use the primary meter type/stat. E.g. shield parts increase a ships shield meter. IIRC only the hangar parts make use of both, the primary meter type/stat defines the number of fighers the hangar can hold, the secondary meter type/stat defines the fighters strength (that is, the damage a single fighter deals).

Weapons. Secondary stat is rate of fire, currently mostly used for Flak Cannons but I think there's a monster that does something interesting with it as well.

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alleryn wrote:Should/can the IMPERIAL_STOCKPILE_x.focs.txt files be renamed to match their tech names?

Might be nice to have these in a new pedia category (under production tech category).
TRANSCEND_DESIGN is slightly mismatched with key name, but not enough to be overly confusing which file to look for.

Should this be opened as a separate issue from the empty Meter Types/Imperial Stockpile use limit pedia entry? Or should they be one 'pedia cleanup' issue?

Unless related, separate issues, we run the risk of a blanket 'pedia cleanup' issue never being closed

Population should probably remove reference to colony, ships have population meters as well.

Primary/Secondary Stat were difficult for me to describe, especially without referring to concepts of the underlying mechanics.
While Secondary Stat is only be used for ship parts currently, from the name it sounded like the intention was for potential use in other definition types as well.

3. Further subcategorization of the "Technologies/" category. This would include moving the four Imperial Stockpile techs to a single sub-category (this would necessarily be predicated by the optional movement of Transcendent Design to Construction in (2)), and subcategorization of other techs, for example "Self Defense" (debatably, since it also improves shields), "Planetary Bunker Complex", "Defensive Militia Training", "Planetary Fortification Network", and "Planetary Guard Brigades" as a defensive troop subcategory within "Technologies/Defense/".

My plan is to open issues for (1) and (2), and to make a new forum thread for (3). I'm tempted to tackle (2) on my own, but i'm not really sure if i'm ready for that. If someone gets to it, all the better, otherwise with luck i'll be ready to attempt something on that small of a scale within a week or so.

dbenage-cx wrote:Population should probably remove reference to colony, ships have population meters as well.

Although Geoff has contemplated that we might some day introduce a ship subclass that also inherits from PopCenter and/or ResourceCenter, they currently do not, and it appears to me that ships do not currently have Population meters. (And my recollection is that colony/outpost type ships rely purely on the capacity meters of their colony pods.)

So for now I think it's fine if discussions of population refer to planets and/or colonies.

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dbenage-cx wrote:
Since the capacity meter varies according to context, I created the stub of "Stat - Primary", similarly "Stat - Secondary" for the secondary stat meter.
This idea was to prefer the use of a specialized article over the general meter type, because the later would need to include any potential value types, not just one description.
e.g. [[encyclopedia DAMAGE_TITLE]] instead of [[metertype METER_CAPACITY]] when referring specifically to damage.
Possibly any such value types could use METER_CAPACITY as the category, and then merge the article for secondary stat to capacity.

but i can't say i really follow it. I'm a bit confused on how it's going to display in the objects window with fleets. I believe Vezzra mentioned that Primary can apply to shields, and MatGB said Secondary can apply to flak cannon rate of fire. And then they can both apply to fighters/launch bays. So what will it display if a ship has launch bays and shields, for example (or is this not possible?). I'm planning to do a bit of testing on this. EDIT: Oh i see now that the capacity/secondary meters are applying to the parts, not to the ships themselves; makes much more sense.

As far as Size goes, i know it can apply to fields. Does it have other uses? ("Size as number", as i understand it, is different and applies to planets. As it's a static value, it is not a meter [then again something like Max Troops seems to be classified as meter; perhaps i'm making a false distinction], so is separate from "Size")

dbenage-cx wrote:Population should probably remove reference to colony, ships have population meters as well.

Although Geoff has contemplated that we might some day introduce a ship subclass that also inherits from PopCenter and/or ResourceCenter, they currently do not, and it appears to me that ships do not currently have Population meters. (And my recollection is that colony/outpost type ships rely purely on the capacity meters of their colony pods.)

So for now I think it's fine if discussions of population refer to planets and/or colonies.

I'll update the issue on github to reflect this. Just checked and Population, Capacity, Max Capacity, Secondary Stat, and Max Secondary Stat for Colony Ship are all zero. So it does seem to be just the Capacity of the Colony Pod Ship Part.